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Selected Works

Jan English-Lueck

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Review Of Working The Past: Narrative And Institutional Memory, Jan English-Lueck Jul 2011

Review Of Working The Past: Narrative And Institutional Memory, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Prototyping Self In Silicon Valley, Deep Diversity As A Framework For Anthropological Inquiry, Jan English-Lueck Mar 2011

Prototyping Self In Silicon Valley, Deep Diversity As A Framework For Anthropological Inquiry, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

High-technology work fuels a dynamic global exchange from technopoles throughout the world, but especially between East and South Asia and the northern Californian region of Silicon Valley. This migration drives an expanded number of ancestral identities. Professional and activity-based identities flourish as Silicon Valley’s strong narrative of meritocracy loosens the grip of birth ascription on the creation of identities. These achieved identities proliferate as people experiment on their own sense of self. Traditional conceptual tools related to immigration, and even such contemporary approaches as Appadurai’s ethnoscapes, do not adequately illuminate the ethnographic data on Silicon Valley workers, families, and especially …


Right From The Start, Applying Anthropology With Lower Division Students, Jan English-Lueck Jan 2009

Right From The Start, Applying Anthropology With Lower Division Students, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Review Of Janitors, Street Vendors And Activists: The Lives Of Mexican Immigrants In Silicon Valley By Christian Zlolniski, Jan English-Lueck Jan 2007

Review Of Janitors, Street Vendors And Activists: The Lives Of Mexican Immigrants In Silicon Valley By Christian Zlolniski, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Reinventing San Jose, California: An Experiment In Multiculturalism, Jan English-Lueck Feb 2006

Reinventing San Jose, California: An Experiment In Multiculturalism, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Rites Of Production: Technopoles And The Theater Of Work, Jan English-Lueck Jan 2004

Rites Of Production: Technopoles And The Theater Of Work, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships In Four High-Tech Communities, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri, C. N. Darrah Jan 2002

Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships In Four High-Tech Communities, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri, C. N. Darrah

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Silicon Missionaries And Identity Evangelists, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri Jan 2001

Silicon Missionaries And Identity Evangelists, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


Silicon Valley Reinvents The Company Town, Jan English-Lueck Jan 2000

Silicon Valley Reinvents The Company Town, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

California's Silicon Valley, famous for its innovative high-technology corporations, makes an ideal laboratory for exploring certain cultural inventions. It is a bellwether for a particular kind of social order—one dominated by work. In anthropology we encounter many frameworks through which life is organized—kinship, religion, and politics. Work is another lens through which life can be filtered. People may move to California for the weather, but they go to Silicon Valley to work. High-technology work draws on a global pool of talent and shifting skills that creates a culturally complex community. Migrants to Silicon Valley bring and enact an image of …


Turner And Frontier Values: Optimistic Postindustrial Enclaves In China And Silicon Valley, Jan English-Lueck Jan 1994

Turner And Frontier Values: Optimistic Postindustrial Enclaves In China And Silicon Valley, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.


China 2020: Looking Forward, Jan English-Lueck Jan 1990

China 2020: Looking Forward, Jan English-Lueck

Jan English-Lueck

No abstract provided.